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  1. Born Hunter
    Agree, I’m not sure that bombing Iran is the right thing to do but whatever we do we should do from a position of strength. What we as a nation are doing now does not look strong. Also, Iran would be like Iraq x10. From a purely pragmatic point of view I think we are in an era of whoever has the biggest stick is in the right, and with that I’d probably opt to back the yanks up to but not including an invasion. I’d like to see us have the capability to comprehensively defend our territories, evacuate all citizens, be a lead in defending shipping in the straits and seizing Iranian tankers.
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    I find it wild that we are even having conversations about redirecting our forces for border control. A nation of our size and history should be able to carry out effective border control with drones, ships and maritime boarding units and still defend all overseas bases and territories from air strikes and still carry out a carrier training operation in the high north and have sufficient specialist units forward deployed to evacuate and rescue British nationals caught out. And frankly, in addition to all that, be able to fight a sustain brigade/division level land war if needed. That should be
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    I genuinely don’t think we have the stomach for it mate. We need twenty years of conservatism to fix the national security and economic problems we have and that won’t happen. The harder the pendulum swings one way the harder it will swing back the other.
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    The problem with this is it’s just an excuse not to do it. The entire country, Westminster and the electorate will play political tennis and negligently put off finding the actual money to fund it. So again, whether it’s a simple raise in tax or budgetary overhaul, it won’t happen because the country doesn’t have the appetite for it. I’m not saying it’s right or wrong but that is the reality of our current defence situation in the uk.
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    It doesn’t. But the fact is it needs to come from somewhere and making it simple like that is useful for displaying the problem. The same argument can be applied to any alternative strategy of funding a bigger military. The same arguments will be faced about using that money for something else. And the same political problems will exist why it’s ’not possible’.
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    Same story all over our military. But are the public willing to stomach and 4% increase in income tax to fund it appropriately?
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    Just watched a video of a US jet being shot down over Kuwait. Looked like a F-15. (Edit: apparently it was a crash not shot down) On a different topic, the argument that this action will cause a new refugee crisis can be countered by the inaction in Syria that led to the largest refugee crisis in modern history.
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    Watch The Expanse. That’s the closest thing I can imagine to the future.
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    That wouldn’t be terrible imo. And Lowe time and time again proves he puts cause before party partisanship. Literally came on here to post this,
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    Rupert Lowe is a breath of fresh air for a country lad like me. But I don’t think his libertarian policies are election winners in Britain. I wish they were. There’s a reason parties attack the center ground.
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    There’s a carrier strike deployment most years now. This one is going north rather than east. It’s not a big deal tbh. More aimed at pacifying the yanks than countering the Russians. There’s been a growing focus on the high north over recent years.
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    That’s a very fair point.
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    I kind of agree. Tactically now feels the wrong time. But tbf there will never be a right time. He’s doing what he feels is needed and it’s very hard to disagree with him or find him anything but absolutely genuine. Tactically it feels like a detrimental move though.
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    Thought you might like it. Decent enough launch video/speech. But there’s now a huge risk of the right wing vote being split to nothing. A right wing coalition wouldn’t necessarily be terrible but it’s a risk with FPtP.
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    I see Rupert Lowe has just announced he’s launched a new party. Restore Britain…
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    Forums dead!
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    Just thought I’d share these. Had a fantastic season. The driven days have gone fantastically and we’ve managed a few boundary days this year to mop up some of the strays.
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    I genuinely want to see a similar operation in the UK. I suspect far more of our illegals are genuine drains on, and threats to, society. However… I think the story is slightly different in the US. Without doubt open borders is an utter catastrophe. But there are far too many reasonable citizens who know and work with illegal migrants who are not on board with what ICE are tasked with. Simply because the illegals they know and work with positively contribute and frankly should probably be accepted as legal migrants. There’s always two sides to these things and I think it’s more complex th
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    I think there’s heaps of possible scenarios that play out as “lawful”. I think, like when you deploy the military to war, when you deploy LEOs at this level and with such opposition there will be a small number of tragic outcomes for one reason or another. As always LEOs could almost certainly be better trained and this scenario will most likely be studied and have an impact on tactics moving forwards. The Feds certainly don’t want more of this but equally aren’t going to allow it to stop legitimate and legal law enforcement. And you can’t wait for the perfect training to be created.
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    I get that he was carrying legally. But that alone will escalate everything. Even when one weapon has been removed. I only know what I’ve seen on the videos. It looked messy but by no means a clean case.
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    The last shooting was messy. That’s the sort of event that needs properly investigating. That said, he was carrying, interfering with law enforcement, and most likely resisting them. That is not a situation you want to find yourself in. They had no idea if he had a secondary firearm, and someone got twitchy. MN looks like a really messy place to be conducting any kind of federal law enforcement right now. A lot of people carrying out coordinated resistance and an awful lot of genuine hate bubbling. Cant help but think those responsible for the poor border control over the last 1
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